“And for sure, he who has a head of glass,   should beware of any hostile stones that pass!”   G. Chaucer – Troilus and...

People voted overwhelmingly for it just a few months ago... and they are getting it. A change in mentality, a change in attitude, a change in style, a change in method, and, screamingly obvious, a...

    A few nights ago, I was walking my dog alone along the sea-shore at about 11 o’clock. It was one of those rare and beautiful nights. There was no-one around, a half moon was...

José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, delivered his State of Union address on September 11 at the European Plenary session in Strasbourg. Barroso highlighted a number of...

The 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opens on 17 September 2013, the third Tuesday of September, in keeping with the UNGA Rules of Procedure. UNGA meets in regular yearly...

Last Wednesday’s energy agreement between the China Power Investment Corporation and the Maltese Ministry for Energy and the Conservation of Water not only  made front page headlines in the...

Following the last general elections the Nationalist Party handed over to the incoming Government a healthy democracy and a sound economy.  We successfully transformed the disastrous state of...

The reform of the public transport was on the national agenda for too many years. Successive ministers made various attempts to bring about improvements in public transport. All made significant...

Six months ago almost to the day, the PN got an electoral blow of unprecedented proportions.  Not only did it lose the election with a margin beyond their most horrifying dreams, but they were...

Over the past week, two very good pieces of news for Malta went almost completely unnoticed.   One can understand a certain reticence by the government in announcing these items for they...